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TTNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

.JOHN A. HEYL,'OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN MECHANISMS FOR OPERATING RAILWAY-SWITCHES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 2] 9,095, dated September 2, 1879; application filed May 22, 187.).

To all whom it may concern: their carriers, being arranged in manner as Be it known that I, JOHN A. HEYL, of Bosrepresented. When onedepressor of a pair is ton,of the countyof Suffolk and State of Massadown upon its seat f the other will be raised chusetts, have invented a new and useful Imor off its seat. In other words, when the quadprovemeut in Mechanism for Operating the rantal or sectoral toggle is resting upon the Switch of a Railway; and dohereby declare slide-plate below it one depressor of each pair the same to be described in the following speciof depressors will be down upon its seat and fication, and represented in the accompanying the other will be oft its seat. drawings, of which Close to the toggles the plank or base G, upon Figure 1 is a top view, Fig. 2 a longitudinal which the slide A is supported, is furnished section, and Figs, 3 and 4 are transverse secwith hearings or standards 9 g, disposed with tions, of mechanism embodying my invention. respect to the shaft D in manner as shown, and The plane of section of Fig. 3 is through the serving to support it against lateral strain of quadrantal or sectoral toggle, while that of the toggles.

Fig. 4 is through one pair of the depressor- Furthermore, it will be seen that when the racks and their intervening pinion, to be heresectoral toggle is resting on the slide the axis inafter described. of such toggle and those of the joints of the The nature'of invention is defined in the depressed straight toggle will be in, or about claim or claims following the accompanying in, a horizontal plane, whereby the slide will description. I be locked, so as not to be accidentallymoved The mechanism to be described is intended in manner to move the switch out of engageto be suitably arranged in arailway-track, and ment with the rails in alignment with which with respect to a switch thereof, to effect the it may be. movements of such switch from the main track The described mechanism for actuating a to the turnout, or the reverse, as may be reswitch is intended to be put in operation by the quired. conductor or engineer of a train or engine there The two switch-rails are to be pivoted to the of while such may be passing over one pair of two longer toggles, or to a slide extending unthe depressors. To do this he is to depress derneath and pivoted tothem, such slide befrom his engine or carriage a'wheel or some ing shown at A, and the said toggles at B B, in proper substitute, which, while moving along Figs. 1 and 2. At their inner ends these togupon one of the raised depressors of the pair,

gles are bored or slotted, as shown at a a, ,to is to be caused to force such depressor downreceive joint-pins b b, by which they are jointed ward, the fellow depressor being correspondto an intermediate quadrantal or sectoral togingly and simultaneously elevated. This will gle, O, which, at or near its center, is fixed on cause the switch to be moved into alignment a long shaft, D. This quadrantal or sectoral with the main track or the turn-out, as occa toggle is composed of two metallic sectors, 0 c, sion may require. of a circle, arrangeclata proper distance apart In order for the engineer to know whether to receive the toggles B B. the switch may be right for him to pass it, it The shaft D, supported at its ends, and also may have a target of the ordinary kind applied between such, if necessary, by suitable bearto it. Should heperceive by the target the ings, has fixed on it, near its extremities, two switch to be properly set for the carriage or small pinions or gears, d (1, each of which entrain to pass over it, he, of course, Will not move gages with two toothed racks, e 6, formed redown the switch-actuator but should the tarspectively on a pair of depressors, E E, which, get indicate it necessary to move the switch, in this case, are arched arms, arranged in andsuch may be effected, as described. pivoted to a frame or carrier, F, in manner as It will be observed that, withthe quad'rantal shown. or sectoral toggle, I am enabled, with but a Fig. 5 is an inner-side view of one of the quarter-revolution of the shaft, to effect either depressors with its rack. There is to each gear movement of the switch, whereas, were I to a pair of such depressors, the two pairs, with havea bell-crank in the place of the quadrantal toggle the shaft would have to be revolved a half-revolution to effect such movement, and, as a consequence, a depressor to operate such crank would require to be depressed twice the distance it would when the quadrantal toggle is used. The advantage of the quadrant-a1 or sectoral toggle over a crank will thus be appardepressors, the shaft and its gears, and the quadrantal or sectoral and straight toggles, arranged and applied to each other substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the two pairs of racked depressors, the shaft and its gears, the quadrantal or sectoral and straight toggles, and the slide, all arranged and applied substantially as set forth.

3. The combination of the stationary bearing or standards 9 g, with the shaft and its gears, the three toggles, and the two pairs of racked depressors, arranged and applied essentially as explained.

JOHN A. HEYL.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, W. W. LUN'r. 

